Now bloggers can embed Getty Images free in their blog posts. Opening a huge photo collection of over 35 million images for non commercial use, the popular Getty Images is encouraging the large blogger community to dump paid stock images and use the embedded Getty Images alternative instead.

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Getty Images Free Use

There is no doubt that the Getty Images collection is truly amazing and you might have spotted it on top media publications. We purchase Fotolia stock images to jazz our blog posts (which costs over $1 per image!), but now this seems a cheaper way to get amazing photos to rock your next article.

This works similar to embedded Youtube videos or Flickr images being used across the web. Note that not all Getty Images are available for embed use.

The embed code image will not be watermarked, but will link back to their website. It will also provide copyright information and allows visitors to browse other works of the photographer, and proceed to buy licensed images if they like them. These embed images are legal and free to use on websites, blogs and social media platforms. Its best to read their terms of use.

So what is the downside … these iframe images do not provide the SEO benefit of an uploaded image in the blog post with optimized Alt tags. You cannot make these images as featured images or grab thumbnails. Also they may decide to remove the image at any time, and your blank embed box might not be so nice to look at.